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This blog is a based on Is Research Dead? a programme broadcast on Shout! Digital Radio earlier this year. In this programme Joint MD of Shout! Communications Keren Haynes talked to Lucy Davies, Brand Manager at Direct Line Group and 72point’s Director of Strategy, Jay Williams, about the best use of research in PR.

Earlier this year Shout! Digital Radio broadcast online; it was a full day of programmes and shows about all things PR. One such programme was ‘Five at Four’ where Shout! Communications co-founder Catherine Bayfield talked with some of the PR world’s biggest names, including Andrew Bloch, co-founder at Frank.

It’s a national, digital radio station which reaches over half a million people every week, but also one that is perhaps not as well understood as the more mainstream BBC stations. So it was with interest that we welcomed George Mann, Impact Editor at BBC Asian Network, to speak at one of our regular Shout! Communications Small Talks.

In this digital age, it’s smart phones that rule the world; but are you using yours to its full potential? According to our recent Shout! Communications Small Talk speaker, Marc Settle, if you’re only using your phone for calls and texts, then you might as well have an old-school Nokia from the early 2000s!